Smart Dates better than Google Sheets

[airship]

Most of my tables are sorted by chronological date. I’m having two issues with Airtable’s handling of dates that currently functions better in Google Sheets.

1. In Google Sheets, I prefer ISO format for dates, but can enter a date of September 8th simply as “9/8” hit return and the date willl convert to “2017-09-08” automatically. Although I prefer ISO dates, typing the full year and hyphen can become tedious after filling a multitude of fields.

2. In Google Sheets, if I have a range of dates, for example, all the days of the month of September, I can create the first cell of 2017-09-01, and in the bottom right corner if I drag down then it will autofill in date chronologically (2017-09-02, 2017-09-03, etc.)

Would be ideal if Airtable devs could implement these features.

Thanks.

[Kasra]

Hi! Thanks for your feedback.

#2 is already possible using the fill handle: https://support.airtable.com/hc/en-us/articles/208330098-Quickly-filling-cells-using-fill-handle

[airship]

Sure thing.

1. So ISO date doesn’t currently have any shortcuts?

2. This is EXACTLY what I was looking for! Thanks! It appears that when has to highlight at least 2 cells to continue the date pattern. Correct?

[Kasra]

So ISO date doesn’t currently have any shortcuts?

No shortcuts right now other than Cmd+; (Ctrl+; on Windows) to set to the current date.

It appears that when has to highlight at least 2 cells to continue the date pattern

Right! That’s how it determines the number of days between each cell.

[airship]

Understood on both. Thanks!